Is it still fashionable to claim you were always an AI company, and just developed <unrelated product> to build the capital to achieve your AI goals?

In any case, AI is (and always was) a meaningless buzz word. Worse, it’s a pop-culture adjacent buzz word.

“I feel liberated,” one top banker told the paper. “We can say ‘retard’ and ‘pussy’ without the fear of getting cancelled.… It’s a new dawn.”

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I don’t think people realize how fucking smoothbrain incompetent the powerful and wealthy are. I think everyone understands that there is rampant nepotism in this country, but don’t notice the scale of the problem. One of America’s biggest weaknesses is the deference we give to people who have a lot of money, regardless of where that money came from.

These nepobabies will elect a fascist government that eagerly wipes it’s ass with the US constitution, just so they can OwN tHe LiBs on social media. It’s the type of thing that can only come from people who have never faced any kind if hardship or consequences in their lives. Who cannot even imagine that the same constitutional rights they’re trying to trample are protecting them, because they can’t imagine an existence where they need protection.

Fuck these clowns.

It sounds to me like you’re looking for someone to give you permission to use AI code generation. If that’s the case, then here you go:

I, Entwine, a professional software engineer, decree that DesertCryptid shall have permission to utilize any Artificial Intelligence product to generate code for his game starting today, and until we reach AGI (at which point my decree will hold no weight).

Anyone who disagrees with my decree shall have to face me in a code review (to the death)

No, I just don’t like it. (I won’t clarify why, because Godot has a bit of a toxic fan base, and I don’t feel like dealing with that)

Just another game engine 🤷

I really hope so

I know, I’ve played with postmarket os before on an old Pixel. The issue is that the usability gap between even AOSP (which is barely usable) and the latest and greatest mobile linux distro is enormous. The issues that exist right now may or may not bother you and I, but they are showstoppers for normal people.

I just don’t see what there is to be gained (for end users) from creating another Linux mobile OS instead of just building on top of AOSP. In theory, having a community-driven OS is a great idea because even a GPL fork of Android wouldn’t survive long due to divergence/fragmentation. If a truly community-driven OS can achieve a sustainable development process, that’d be nice. However, in practice the evil stuff Google does is on the business side, not the code side. For example, if you port Phosh to Android as a custom launcher, you’d end up with a similar user experience, except with the added benefit of a phone that actually works and a massive ecosystem of working apps. Sure, you can’t apt install blender, but nobody actually wants to run desktop apps on a smartphone.

And another thing is that a lot of the freedom-restricting bullshit on Android today is the fault of device manufacturers who lock the bootloader and make it difficult/impossible to run custom operating systems. Even if you build a feature-complete alternative to Android, you’re still going to be struggling hard to get it running on real devices without buy-in from OEMs. How will you convince OEMs to ship your OS over Android? Answer: you won’t.

So IMO, Postmarket OS and similar projects will only ever be toys for nerds like us who want to play with e-waste devices abandoned by the manufacturer.

Want to break Google’s stranglehold on Android? Write to your representatives and start voting in more than just the presidential election (If you’re American). We live in a democracy, and Google is obviously breaking antitrust laws. It’s just that current politicians are corrupt and incompetent boomers who don’t understand tech, and are more likely to listen to the billionaire’s lobbyists than us internet nerds.

Besides myself, I think I’ve only ever met one or two other people who know enough about technology to even be capable of using something like that.

I don’t think that’s the right answer. Android isn’t a good operating system, it’s a great operating system for mobile. All these mobile Linux distro projects face a monumental challenge to reach parity with Android on almost any metric. Even if any one of them was backed by major investment, I don’t think they’ll ever succeed…and if they do, we’d just end up with multiple competing open source operating systems which just creates pointless fragmentation.

Android is open source, but it’s held by an evil monopolist. The most effective path to freedom on mobile is legal/regulatory, and supporting efforts to break Google up. They’ve already been declared an illegal monopoly twice in two separate cases. The first one ended with a slap on the wrist, because the judge was a spineless coward. The second one is currently in the remedy phase, and hopefully will have a real impact.

Excellent title

Peter Thiel is a character who believes in a single world government using AI outside of any democracy.

Sorry, but your description doesn’t paint an accurate-enough picture of this guy.

Peter Thiel is a lunatic who believes that AI regulation is the anti-christ, and he’s currently one of the most powerful people in the world.

Earlier this year, Hector Martin resigned from kernel development because he claimed kernel devs were trying to sabotage efforts to get Rust into the kernel. While he’s been gone, it seems the pace of Rust integration has increased significantly, suggesting that maybe he was the problem all along.

Lesson: always push out egomaniacs who like to create drama more than they want to solve problems.

What’s the logo between Guix and C?

Found the soydev

I’ve been wondering about this recently too. Everyone has had that situation where they talk about (Thing) out loud with someone, and then a few seconds later they see an advertisement for (Thing). That means there is something recording conversations and selling it to advertisers. I don’t see why those companies wouldn’t sell that to Palantir too.

The obvious suspect for “who the fuck is recording my conversations” is smartphones, but it’s also probably IOT shit like smart TVs and other appliances. Even if not connected to wifi, some could include their own modems.

In addition to this, Palantir could also just buy location and other data directly from telecom companies. They could even have deals with eg Qualcomm to backdoor their SoCs or implement data collection. (Except I think something like that would’ve been caught be security researchers already)

This is admittedly very cool, and I don’t support shoplifting even if it’s from an evil megacorp.

What worries me is that Cop Drone™ will start carrying a gun some day.

An RTO mandate isn’t growth. Growth would be if they mandated all hard drives containing Teams source code be thrown into a dumpster, and the dumpster lit on fire.

Isn’t the dev behind rustdesk (at least the original) anonymous? I remember that standing out as a red flag for me when I was evaluating options, and ended up going with Mesh Central instead (which works much better imo)

They do. The youtube studio thing automatically inserts a shitload of ad breaks by default, but channels have the option to customize it. When you see a video with annoying ad breaks, it’s because the creator didn’t choose to remove them.

There’s a good documentary about this.